Phonological suppression of anaphoric Wh-expressions in English and Korean

Myung Kwan Park

Phonological suppression of anaphoric Wh-expressions in English and Korean

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This paper follows the lead of Chung (2013), examining the phonological suppression of the wh-expression in English and Korean. We argue that the wh-expression itself cannot undergo ellipsis/deletion/dropping, as it carries information focus. However, it can do so, when in anaphoricity with the preceding token of wh-expression, it changes into an E-type or sloppy-identity pronoun. This vehicle change from the whexpression to a pronoun accompanies the loss of the wh-feature inherent in the wh-expression. In a certain structural context such as a quiz question, the interrogative [+wh] complementizer does not require the presence of a whexpression, thus the expression being optionally dropped.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014
Editors	Prachya Boonkwan, Wirote Aroonmanakun, Thepchai Supnithi
Publisher	Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University
Pages	57-64
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9786165518871
State	Published - 2014
Event	28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014 - Phuket, Thailand Duration: 12 Dec 2014 → 14 Dec 2014

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Name	Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014

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Conference	28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014
Country/Territory	Thailand
City	Phuket
Period	12/12/14 → 14/12/14

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Park, M. K. (2014). Phonological suppression of anaphoric Wh-expressions in English and Korean. In P. Boonkwan, W. Aroonmanakun, & T. Supnithi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014 (pp. 57-64). (Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014). Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University.

Park, Myung Kwan. / Phonological suppression of anaphoric Wh-expressions in English and Korean. Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014. editor / Prachya Boonkwan ; Wirote Aroonmanakun ; Thepchai Supnithi. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, 2014. pp. 57-64 (Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014).

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Park, MK 2014, Phonological suppression of anaphoric Wh-expressions in English and Korean. in P Boonkwan, W Aroonmanakun & T Supnithi (eds), Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014. Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, pp. 57-64, 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014, Phuket, Thailand, 12/12/14.

Phonological suppression of anaphoric Wh-expressions in English and Korean. / Park, Myung Kwan.
Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014. ed. / Prachya Boonkwan; Wirote Aroonmanakun; Thepchai Supnithi. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, 2014. p. 57-64 (Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2014).

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